I am convinced the majority of the enterprises have way below a petabyte of data in their databases. Ofcause there is always the internet where we can extract as many petabytes of data as we want. Which means that so to speak, we all have somehow that same amount of data at our disposition.

Are we all concerned ?

Not really, for now. First, not each and every enterprise has that amount of analysable data in its’ databases. And not each and every enterprise has the need to extract those amounts of data from the internet. As long as some gigabytes or maybe some terabytes are sufficient to analyse whatever you want to analyse, why bother?

The big data hype is advocated by enterprises that sell big data solutions. But it is not because they tell us that we need it, that we do need it or that we are ready to put it to proper use, generating an acceptable ROI.

I saw enough examples of expensive software that was just money thrown away.

Other people will certainly have other opinions on this. If you do, do not hesitate to start the discussion.